>| So, yes, a normal csh-type alias would work under some situations, but
>| not all... OTOH, if I'm the only one that uses this sort of thing then
>| just groping __progname will be good enough.
>
>Checking __progname is extremely poor style.
huh? loads of programs do it all the time...well...argv[0] at least,
but that's where __progname comes from anyway. loads...perhaps
they're all just special cases?
sendmail/mailq/hoststat/...
chown/chgrp
ex/vi/view
cksum/md5/sum
hexdump/od
quotaon/quotaoff
chfn/chpass/chsh
passwd/yppasswd
less/more/page
...
ramdiskbin/cp/ln/mv/sh/init/...
i, for one, am extremely fond of having a copy of ramdiskbin in the
root of all my filesystems. sure, it eats a more than a meg of disk
space, but the benefits are high higher than the losses.
>Users should be able to copy binaries around
>and rename them as they see fit without seeing
>strange lossage or behavior changes.
% touch me
% ls -l me
-rw-r--r-- 1 andrew staff 0 Jun 8 12:36 me
% cp /usr/sbin/chown ./foo
% cp /usr/sbin/chown ./bar
% ./foo 0 me
foo: me: Operation not permitted
% ./bar 0 me
% ls -al me
-rw-r--r-- 1 andrew wheel 0 Jun 8 12:36 me
???
>While it's acceptable to grandfather in this sort of thing
>because it has been there forever, adding new instances of it
>should be forbidden.
while it's acceptable to do cool things, you should cease from doing
new cool things.
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